On Feb 11, 5:10 am, Nick Olson
wrote:
Ok a question - how many deaths or serious injuries
have been caused to bystanders by low flying gliders
executing a competition finish? Maybe someone can furnish
the statistics? Is it really that dangerous (risky?)
an activity? i.e. compared to crossing the road? driving
a car? or are we using the old asinine 'one death is
a death too many argument?'.

I'm not saying the pilot wasn't partly to blame - just
not wholly to blame as Don seems to state - Mr Lawson
increased the risk to himself by his actions -as did
the other bystanders standing on the top of vechiles
under the flightpaths of finishing competition gliders.

You make good points in your post.....except for the "one death is a
death too many" being "asinine". What??? Do you think an occiasional
death here and there should be tolerated so we don't have to change or
create a rule to improve safety? Now that's asinine!